The document discusses the UK government's "Big Society" initiative to promote social action, open up public services, and empower communities through greater involvement of voluntary organizations. It notes concerns that cuts to resources could undermine these goals and shift costs to the local level where capacity is limited. It outlines various new programs and legislation related to Big Society, including the Localism Bill, and asks what volunteering the reader does themselves.
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This talk by Simon Duffy was given to service providers, social workers and commissioners in Bedfordshire on 3rd December 2015. It explores the reasons why ISFs are a helpful tool for achieving citizenship for people with learning disabilities and others who use social care services.
Cause: Connecting with Trade Associations & Professional SocietiesSteve Drake
Trade associations and professional societies represent an untapped resource for companies and charities seeking cause marketing alliances. This presentation from the Cause Marketing Forum's Master Series offers a look at how you can tap in to this untapped resource.
You can listen to the audio recording of this presentation by going to http://www.causemarketingforum.com/audiocourses.asp
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Análise dos elementos teóricos da semiótica de base greimasiana.
O slide é altamente pedagógico e visa a informa e complementar o conhecimento do leitor estudante da teoria.
Claro, didático, completinho e pronto para ser usado em apresentaçõe spara sala de aula e para o público em geral.
O Swimtest® é um sistema de avaliação em natação totalmente inovador, sem qualquer similar no mercado, no Brasil ou no exterior. O Sistema permite a ampla avaliação de alunos de academias de diferentes idades e estágios (aperfeiçoamento e treinamento), proporcionando resultados sobre a aptidão aeróbia e anaeróbia, técnica do nado e parâmetros biomecânicos. O próprio aluno visualiza os resultados e o professor também dispõe de uma tabela para prescrição do treinamento.
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This presentation covers a lot of the background as well as the latest news and announcements.
Please use the comments space below the presentation to ask questions or add your thoughts about what is being proposed. I've offered to help moderate a discussion via this page, and/or via the email forum for the Coordinators [contact me for details]
Mark Walker
ICT Champion for the third sector in south east England
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In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
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This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Welcome and the Big Picture - Big Society & Localism
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6. Easy for him to say… 'When it comes to looking at and trimming your budgets, don't do the easy thing, which is to cut money to the voluntary bodies and organisations working in our communities. Look at your core costs. Look at how you can do more for less. Look at the value for money you get from working with the voluntary sector.” David Cameron
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Editor's Notes
1. Social Action is about supporting the work of neighbourhood groups, charities and social enterprise. This is where the government is looking for ‘mass engagement’, broad culture of responsibility for what happens at a local level. One of the government believes it will do this is through transforming the civil service into the ‘civic service’ by making regular community service a key element in staff appraisals the other clear offer is the ‘Big Society Day’ to celebrate the work of neighbourhood groups and encourage more people to take part in social action projects. Neighbourhood army” of 5,000 full-time, professional community organisers who will be trained with the skills they need to identify local community leaders, bring communities together, help people start their own neighbourhood groups, and give communities the help they need to take control and tackle their problems. This plan is directly based on the successful community organising movement established by Saul Alinsky in the United States and has successfully trained generations of community organisers, including President Obama. 2. Public Service Reform - breaking state monopolies, allowing charities, social enterprises and companies to provide public services, devolving power down to neighbourhoods, making government more accountable". Examples include the new GP commissioning process. 3. Community Empowerment – This includes the notion of parent being able to start new schools, empowering communities to take over local amenities that are under threat of closure, neighbourhoods being in charge of the planning system and holding the police to account in neighbourhood beat meetings.
Local authorities should look at ways of reducing their own core costs, Prime Minister tells Commons The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has urged local authorities not to do the "easy thing" by cutting money from voluntary organisations. Cameron’s comments came in a reply to a question in the Commons from Julie Hilling, Labour MP for Bolton West, on Wednesday. She asked what the Prime Minister would do to save groups such as Bolton Community and Voluntary Services , which has lost £89,000 of grants this year. He replied: "We should say to every single council in the country: ‘When it comes to looking at and trimming your budgets, don't do the easy thing, which is to cut money to the voluntary bodies and organisations working in our communities. Look at your core costs. Look at how you can do more for less. Look at the value for money you get from working with the voluntary sector.' "That is the message that I would take to her local authority, and everyone should try to work in that direction."
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